It was perhaps 26th of February 1948. I am really not sure of the date, but it was certainly a few days short of 1st March. Within the family, the decision to migrate from Pakistan to India had been taken. A tentative date for the move had been fixed at 28 March. Read the rest of this entry
Getting selected for the ISW / AFA was my first concern. The syllabus for the examination by the UPSC for entry into the Inter Services Wing of the Armed Forces Academy was rather sketchy; a total of three papers, one each on English, Mathematics and General Knowledge / Current Affairs. In those days, there were no coaching classes available for such tests in Kolkata. The examinee was left entirely on his own. Read the rest of this entry
It was an ordinary sort of morning. For a student of first year Intermediate Science at Ashutosh College Calcutta in early 1949, life was seldom very exciting. The timetable indicated a period of Bengali Literature followed by a period of English after which there was a double period of Physics practical and then two free periods. Late in the evening there were two periods of Mathematics to be done before I would be free to go home. Read the rest of this entry
